National Competition
Nathalie cannot cope with her son Gobran, who is having difficulties with the police and at school. Together, they go to see Naïma Serroukh, instigator and facilitator of the project called...
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
Originally there was a silence. That of Malek, the filmmaker's father, who for years said nothing of his childhood in Algeria. And then, the need to break the silence, with a script that he gives to...
Opening Scenes
Astronauts set foot on the red earth of the Oman desert before the unbelieving eyes of the Bedouin. Two high school girls build castles in the air. A young boy trains to jump as far as possible....
International Medium Length & Short Film Competition
After over six years out of his country, the Syrian filmmaker Yaser Kassab continues to attempt to recount the war from the sad and soulless scenery of exile. Imprisoned by the banal decor of an...
National Competition
A young woman sorts her possessions, ready to leave the family home and to start her own, via the essential step of marriage. Julia Bünter settled in Cairo in 2015 to accompany, with her camera, three...
Grand Angle
When the junior ice hockey team from the small town of N á chod, in the Czech Republic, sets off in a bus to Morocco to play the away game in an exchange programme, the players and their...
Latitudes
In an all-male world ruled by Sharia law and threatened by civil war at its borders, a group of young women try to claim their right to live as they please. Pursuing their passion for soccer, they try...
International Feature Film Competition
Om El Khir is a real fighter. Her husband has disappeared. One morning, he left on a boat for Europe and she has since received no evidence on whether he is dead or alive. Alone with her three...
International Feature Film Competition
Beyond the Arctic Circle, the town of Kiruna, in Sweden, must relocate: the iron mine over which it was built is threatening to swallow it up. To continue the mine's activity, it has been decided...
Maître du Réel Werner Herzog
“Talking about oil: corpse juice” (René Barjavel). Herzog could have made this sentence his own, in the way his “lessons of darkness” evoking the ravages of the first Gulf war constitute a cinematic...
Atelier Tariq Teguia
In the mouths of the rioters he is photographing in southern Algeria, Ibn Battutâ—a homonym of the famous explorer of the Muslim world of the 14th century—hears the word “Zendj”. Tracking this...
Atelier Tariq Teguia
A motorway under the rain, a railway line, demonstrations in Barcelona, images of war, a rock concert, a screening of Zanj Revolution … Commissioned by the Centre Pompidou, ...
National Competition
Boutheyna Bouslama remembers her holidays in Syria in the summer of 1994: a boy offered her an armful of cherries. He was called Oussama. Twenty years later, his name appears in the credits of ...
Opening Scenes
The bedroom—the space in which one comes back to one's intimacy, sleep and also perhaps disappointments—serves as a setting to compose the filmmaker's fragmented portrait. A woman seeks to understand...
Opening Scenes
Pacific is the name of the building where the director lives, on the 18th floor. Also known as “the suicide tower”, it is a typical example of collective housing. In a subtle interplay between the...
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